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Notes from the Inside
From the President
First Person: Darwin in a Different Voice
Engines of Ingenuity
Playing with Dolphins
The Perils of Publicity
Profile: Leeds University
Patenting Jefferson
Michigan State University
SPACEWORK:HSS/NASA Fellowship
2009 Preliminary Program
Koyré Medal, Telescopes,
Southern Host,
Latest News,
Member News
In Memoriam, Jobs, Conferences, Grants
Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society
CUNY Liberal Studies Bioethics, Science and Society Lecture Series
New York Academy of Sciences
Section for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
All lectures begin at 6:00 PM
2009
Wednesday, October 28 (Columbia University)
Nathan Sivin (University of Pennsylvania)
“Is Chinese Science Really an Exotic Subject?”
Wednesday, December 3 (CUNY Graduate Center)
Roger Cooke (University of Vermont)
“The File on Academician N.N. Luzin”
2010
Wednesday, January 27 (The Gallatin School, New York University)
Bert Hansen (Bernard Baruch College, City University of New York)
“Wonders of Nature and Miracles of Medicine: Popularizing Science in LIFE Magazine, 1936-1972”
Wednesday, February 24 (Columbia University)
Peder Anker (New York University):
“History of Spaceship Earth Science”
Wednesday, March 24 (CUNY Graduate Center)
David E. Rowe (University of Mainz, Germany)
“Einstein’s Encounters with Mathematicians: The Swiss Years”
Wednesday, April 28 (The Gallatin School, New York University)
Richard W. Burkhart (University of Illinois):
“Evolutionary Thought before Darwin: Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique, Frédéric Cuvier, and the Paris menagerie”
Wednesday, May 26 (New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 40th floor)
Naomi Oreskes (University of California, San Diego)
“How the Cold War changed American Science”
For additional information, or to reserve a place for the lecture or for dinner with the speaker after the lecture, please contact either Joseph W. Dauben at jdauben@gc.cuny.edu, Pamela Smith ps2270@columbia.edu, or Matthew Stanley at ms5100@nyu.edu, at least one week in advance of any lecture you plan to attend.
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